This book aims to highlight the latest achievements in epidemiological surveillance and
internet interventions based on monitoring online communications and interactions on the web.
It presents the state of the art and the advances in the field of online disease surveillance
and intervention. The edited volume contains extended and revised versions of selected papers
presented at the International World Wide Web and Population Health Intelligence (W3PHI)
workshop series along with some invited chapters and presents an overview of the issues
challenges and potentials in the field along with the new research results. The book provides
information for a wide range of scientists researchers graduate students industry
professionals national and international public health agencies and NGOs interested in the
theory and practice of computational models of web-based public health intelligence.
